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Pioneer Venus Orbiter Map of Venus

color-coded topographic map
Source: NASA/Ames/U.S. Geological Survey/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Published: May 7, 2019
Historical Date: December 1, 1978

A map of Venus compiled from data recorded by NASA's Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraft beginning in 1978.

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